[Sussex] Partitioning reshuffle + Possible Distro Change (maybe)?

[Stephen Williams]

On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 21:42 +0100, John D. wrote:
> Further to my previous post about having to change my partitioning
> scheme, it occurred to me that it might be a good opportunity to have
> another "go" at something Debian based.
> 
> Things will have to be changed partition wise, because of my mp3
> partition not being visible to my XP install (it seems that this is
> because my fourth primary partition is a "linux extended" rather than
> something that XP can see).
> 
> So, with that in mind, I think that if I just changed the fourth
> partition, it'd probably wipe out my /root, /home and /mnt/mp3
> partitions, which are all logical extensions within the /dev/hda4
> extended.
> 
> If thats what is likely to happen, I thought that it would be an idea to
> put something debian based on the system as a change.
> 
> My main issue, would be that it doesn't matter how many times I've
> tried, I can't get used to gnome, so that would take Ubuntu out of the
> equation. I understand that there is a KDE version of Ubuntu available
> (Kubuntu ???), but having not had any experience of it, I'd be doubtful
> of my abilities to manage it in the short term.

You could always try kubuntu.

> 
> So, I'm thinking along the lines of installing Knoppix to the hard
> drive, and then changing the apt-sources list to reflect "proper" debian
> sources. Which should allow me to benefit from the excellent hardware
> detection/auto configuration, while all the updates coming from the
> debian sources.
> 
> I understand that Knoppix is a bit of a mongrel mix of debian testing
> and unstable, so is that likely to be a major issue i.e. changing the
> apt-sources so that it can see both testing and unstable causing
> problems with upgrades and installs ??
> 
> In any event, I can always just re-install the gentoo, but think that it
> might be good for the learning to have another crack at debian - though
> not "proper" debian, given how rubbish I am when it comes to doing
> things CLI/manually.
> 
> regards
> 
> John D.
> 
> 
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